In its original language, the Pali Canon is called the Tipiṭaka, ‘Three Baskets’,30 because it
consists of three large bodies of texts:
(i) the Vinaya Piṭaka, concerned with the disciplinary code, or Vinaya, for monks and nuns (but also including extensive narrative material about the life of the Buddha, giving the context in which these rules came to be made);
(ii) the Sutta Piṭaka, relating the Buddha’s teachings in the form of connected dialogues and narratives;
(iii) the Abhidhamma Piṭaka, or advanced philosophical and psychological teachings, seeking to explain the true nature of our consciousness, and that which we regard as our ‘self’.
(i) the Vinaya Piṭaka, concerned with the disciplinary code, or Vinaya, for monks and nuns (but also including extensive narrative material about the life of the Buddha, giving the context in which these rules came to be made);
(ii) the Sutta Piṭaka, relating the Buddha’s teachings in the form of connected dialogues and narratives;
(iii) the Abhidhamma Piṭaka, or advanced philosophical and psychological teachings, seeking to explain the true nature of our consciousness, and that which we regard as our ‘self’.
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